Emeritus Professor
Personal Details
Biography
James Porter is professor emeritus of Scottish Ethnology, prior to which he held the Chair of Ethnomusicology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was educated at the Universities of St Andrews and Edinburgh, and on graduation was awarded a British Council Fellowship to study the music of Janacek in Czechoslovakia. His 175 or so publications cover the fields of ethnology, folklore and ethnomusicology. He is a founding editor of the Garland Encyclopedia of World Music and has contributed large genre entries to the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1980 and 2000 editions).
His current work focuses on the music of Jean Servin.
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Selected Publications
- The Traditional Music of Britain and Ireland (Music Research and Information Guides, 11; New York and London, 1989)
- Jeannie Robertson: Emergent Singer, Transformative Voice (Knoxville, 1995)
- J. Porter (ed.), Folklore and Traditional Music in the Former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe (Los Angeles, California, 1997)
- J. Porter and T. Rice (founding editors), The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, 9 vols. (New York and London, 1998-)
- 'Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra (1943) and Janacek's Sinfonietta (1926): Conceptual and Motivic Parallels', in E. Antokoletz, V. Fischer and B. Suchoff (eds.), Bartók Perspectives: Man, Composer, and Ethnomusicologist (New York, 2000), 152-68
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